AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon RX 5600 XT and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock has increased by 32% (1560MHz vs 1178MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 112.2GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Lower TDP (120W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 5600 XT +197%

7.188 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 5600 XT +237%

7703

GeForce GTX 960

2284

Blender

Radeon RX 5600 XT +1137%

2376

GeForce GTX 960

192

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +210%

31

GeForce GTX 960

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +156%

64

GeForce GTX 960

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +182%

99

GeForce GTX 960

35

GTA 5 1080p

Radeon RX 5600 XT +142%

170

GeForce GTX 960

70

Radeon RX 5600 XT

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GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Jan 2020

Release Date

Jan 2015

Navi

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1130 MHz

Base Clock

1127 MHz

1560 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

128bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

1024

144

TMUs

64

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

3 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

99.84 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

224.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

14.38 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

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7.188 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

449.3 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Navi 10

GPU Name

GM206

Navi 10 XLE (215-0917338)

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

RDNA 1.0

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

28 nm

10.3 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

251 mm²

Die Size

228 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

120W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

5.2

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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